Cardiff Centre for Lifelong Learning

Public Service Interpreting

Our Public Service Interpreting programme has been designed, with funding from the Welsh Government, to introduce bilingual students to the profession including role boundaries, professional conduct, terminology and practical issues, to help those already working as interpreters to assess and further develop their interpreting and other professional skills and to offer guidance to students who are considering or preparing for the Diploma in Public Service Interpreting (DPSI) examination.

The DPSI is a qualification awarded by the Chartered Institute of Linguists (CIoL) as a means of quality control for public service interpreters. The DPSI examination is open to anyone regardless of whether they have completed any courses and takes place once a year in June. More information about it can be found at www.iol.org.uk

We work with service providers and invite students to take part in training sessions with public service professionals to promote effective joint working practices.

Public Service (PS) interpreters normally work on a freelance / self-employed basis and there is little predictability of demand for their services. We work with the Wales Interpretation and Translation Service (WITS) who recruit and book interpreters for local public service providers and are able to provide information regarding demand for different languages.

We offer supplementary bilingual courses for some languages to students enrolled on any of the public service interpreting courses. The languages currently covered are listed in the Frequently Asked Questions document posted online at www.cardiff.ac.uk/learn/languages/PSI/faq.php.

This course is designed to offer French speaking students intending to sit the DPSI examination in Law, feedback on their performance in DPSI tasks and to raise their awareness of translation problems and possible solutions via distance learning.

This course is designed to offer Polish speaking students intending to sit the DPSI examination in Health, feedback on their performance in DPSI tasks and to raise their awareness of translation problems and possible solutions via distance learning.

This course will introduce students to translation skills and equip intermediate students of Spanish with the necessary skills to progress to the Higher Level Translation Skills course. Most work on the course revolves around the translation of a variety of Spanish texts from many different genres. It will also include some basic translation theory and strategy.

This course is designed to offer Polish speaking students intending to sit the DPSI examination in Health, feedback on their performance in DPSI tasks and to raise their awareness of translation problems and possible solutions via distance learning.

This course is suitable for students who
are new to interpreting as well as for
experienced interpreters and covers the
understanding, knowledge and skills
required and practical and ethical issues
associated with working as a public
service interpreter in the UK. It will
include professional conduct and
development, term

This course is designed to support bilingual students in the development of the skills, knowledge and understanding required to work as public service interpreters in health settings and in their preparation for the Health option of the Diploma in Public Service Interpreting (DPSI) examination run by the Chartered Institute of Linguists.

This course is designed to support bilingual students in the development of the skills, knowledge and understanding required to work as public service interpreters in legal settings and in their preparation for the English Law option of the Diploma in Public Service Interpreting (DPSI) examination run by the Chartered Institute of Linguists.

This course is designed to help nonnative
English speakers who are fluent in
English to improve their communication
skills for the purpose of working for or
interacting with UK public services
including as public service interpreters. It
will raise awareness of linguistic issues
that have a bearing on effective and
professional communication.